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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Horror, Paranormal, Fantasy Anyone?

Through all of my wonderful new facebook friends, I have garnered a close and supportive cadre of awesome people. I want to take this time to introduce you to one of them. My brilliant friend E.H. James is an amazing writer of horror (something I am just trying to break into) and paranormal and fantasy. She and I survived an experience with another publisher, and found a wonderful home with Musa Publishing.

I asked her to write a guest blog and give us her short story writing experience. We both really enjoy the genre of short stories and I thought you might like to hear from someone new! :-)

In the words of E. H. James:

"I
was asked what inspired me to write these short stories, and to be honest I had
to think about it.

When
I sit down to create a story and bring its characters to life my mood sets the
tone and genre, and that can be anything from thriller, to fantasy, to
paranormal, to horror…

The
story unfolds before me as I write it, and when it’s a short story I am always
drawn to write something paranormal or horror based. I’m not sure why that is;
perhaps it has something to do with watching Twilight Zone episodes. You hope
that you have been able to create enough of a story that it truly pulls the
reader in. You hope that your characters are fleshed out enough for the reader
to become invested in their welfare. That is not an easy task when writing
short stories.

To
try and pinpoint precisely where the inspiration for any one story comes from
is impossible to say because for each story it’s a completely different
experience for me. Each story has its own feel and I am taken to a different
place when writing it, perhaps some place dark, or mysterious, or unpredictable.
I guess what I am saying is the stories themselves are their own inspiration,
that in the process of writing them the inspiration is created in the moment."

Go ahead and support her by checking out these links:

Laura - Blurb

George
had seen some pretty strange things over his lifetime, travelling those roads.
But if he had thought he’d seen it all, he was sadly mistaken. For if he
thought finding Laura alone, along some deserted roadside in the middle of the
night was strange, then he had no idea that what was to follow would challenge
the very boundaries of everything he’d ever known.

If
Amy thought this day on the psych ward would be just like any other she would
be wrong.

For although everything seemed normal, well as normal as a place like that
could be, there was something that was not quite right. That she couldn’t put
her finger on it only made it all the more perplexing.

Don’t
go asking questions you don’t want to know the answer to, especially when
you're on a psych ward, and even you begin to question your sanity.